Oar-loom button.



F. C. HOWARD.

OAR LOOM BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED JULY II. I918.

Patented Nov. 26, 1918.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK CHARLES HOWARD, 0F FAIRFIELD, NEAR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA.

OAR-LOOM BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1918.

Application filed July 11, 1918. Serial No. 244,433.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK CHARLES HOWARD, subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Landsdowne Bridge, Fairfield, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oar-Loom Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

According to present practice, the button sto on car looms is a leather collar at- .tached t ereto by nails. The timber is weakened by these nails at about the place where it suffers the maximum stress in use, and the button stop is not adjustable, so as to permit of the handle position being altered to suit the convenience of different rowers.

According to my invention the button stop is a two piece metal clamp collar with a facing ring of leather, fiber, or like resilient substance. The two sections of this clamp collar are secured together by screws which bind it tightly upon the leather mutt with which the car loom is cased.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is an elevational view of the rear end of my button stop showing the two pieces forming it secured together by screwed pins; Fig. 2 is a corresponding side elevation thereof, as it appears when fixed on the oar loom; Fig. is an elevational view of the rear end of a preferred construction of my button stop, which is distinguished from that shown in Fig. 1 by the improved method of securing together the two pieces of it, for which purpose said parts are hinged together at one joint while the other joint is secured by a screwed pin; and Fig. 4 is a corresponding top plan.

In both cases the button stop is a flanged ring which is adapted in section to correspond with the conventional section of an oar loom where the button stop is usually attached to it. The collar portion A is adapted to embrace the leather muff tightly, so that it will bite into it and become secured fast when the two sections forming the button stop are closed and tightened together by driving home the screwed pins B. The upstanding flange ring 0 carries a leather collar D which is made in two sections to correspond with the sections of the button stop, and is secured to the flanges C by rivets or screws at G, G. The flanges A are extended upward on either side of the joints to form lugs EE through which the screwed pins B are inserted.

In the preferred construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4:, the arrangement is identical, excepting that at the top side of the loom the two parts forming the button stop are connected through a pin hinge joint Fwhich permits said parts to be swung apart to release them from the loom mufl" and to be closed thereon and secured atthe lower joint by means of a screwed pin B, similar to the screwed pins B shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In this case the leather facing ring D is attached to the upstanding flanges C in the same manner as already described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is An oar button stop comprising a halved collar adapted to embrace the oar loom, means for fastening the halves of the collar together, an upstanding flange ring projecting substantially at right angles from the planeof the collar, and a cushioning member attached to a face of said flange ring.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK CHARLES HOWARD.

Witnesses:

W. J. HUMPHREYS, H. O. CAMPBELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

